PASSMORE'S AFTER-DINNER STORY
Recently Walter Passmorb was asked to relate wlint lio.'considered to be his best after-dinher story, and lie obliged with , tha following:—"I, remember once, ho said, ' '"when we were touring in Ireland a good fow years agoi the prico of lodgiugs was'ab- • normally high at ii small town we were playing in. So the carpenter and property man, rather tlia'n bo robbed by.-' 'owdacious hindladies,' is they called them, agreed to sleep on the 1 stage. Well, they did so; but they didn't exactly enjoy it, and, to say the least, they- didn't sleep soundly. In tlio middle of the night they both woke up half-starved to death with cold. 'Jack,' said'the carpenter' ! to tbo property mail, 'i'm as cold as a refrigerator at tbo North Polo.' 'I'm ditto,' said the property; man,,shivering like a leaf. 'And : no; wonder, neither,' lie said,V looking ; ; round.\ 'Hanged if we ain't sleeping in- a ' frozen forest. Lend.a hand,.and we'll lower an interior with'a big'fireplace.' And they • did, with the result that they slept very comfortably until morning, when: they' a violent perspiration," v
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 12
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